The journey is long, the road is dark and frightening, but together we can reach our destination: the Tasmania of which we all dream, where all are w….

Film is the art of turning money into light, and light into money. But it begins with money..

I think writing should be about change..

Writing reminds you that you're never alone. Writing and reading is to be optimistic..

It's a sin for a writer to go looking for camels to put into his or her pages. I only want details that are the story..

I think empathy's a terrible danger for a writer..

I had some bad jobs when I was young. Writing is not one of them. If you're fortunate enough to reach my age, to still be writing, you have to be gra….

I do feel like a fraud a lot of the time because I've never been interested in people who say 'I'm a writer', 'I'm an artist'. Too much is made of th….

In the end you're not made or broken by prizes. Your relationship is with your readers, not a prize, and you just have to keep on honoring that..

One cannot distinguish between human and non-human acts. One cannot point, one cannot say this man here is a man and that man there is a devil..

Murder and hate are as deeply buried in the human heart as love, perhaps more so, and in truth they're rather entwined, and if you tried to separate ….

We live in a material world, not a dramatic one..

I do not share the pessimism of the age about the novel. They are one of our greatest spiritual, aesthetic and intellectual inventions. As a species ….

Writing about sex at length is a bit like describing mastication at length. It's the causes and the consequences and the meaning of it that are inter….

Most of us have loved. And the terror for a writer is that readers will forgive you so much, but they won't forgive you one false note about love, ab….

Love is a glimpse of hope. To love is to hope. When we abandon hope, we cease to exist..

I think it's always wrong of writers to make too much of the pains of their labors, because most people have much worse jobs and suffer such indignit….

A happy man has no past, while an unhappy man has nothing else..

We remember nothing. Maybe for a year or two. Maybe most of a life, if we live. Maybe. But then we will die, and who will ever understand any of this….

We have a very foolish notion in Western countries that progress delivers freedom. But progress doesn't necessarily bring moral virtue..

Writing is not lying, nor is it theft. It is a journey and search for transparency between one’s words and one’s soul..